This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... for the welfare of the world--an idea of which there is no trace in pre-BuddhisticBrahmanism. This receives its highest expression in the Bhagavad Gita Sacred Books of the East, vol. viii.), which represents the new movement when Buddhism has declined. It preaches a doctrine of spiritual knowledge by faith; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... for the welfare of the world--an idea of which there is no trace in pre-BuddhisticBrahmanism. This receives its highest expression in the Bhagavad Gita Sacred Books of the East, vol. viii.), which represents the new movement when Buddhism has declined. It preaches a doctrine of spiritual knowledge by faith; and in the person of Krishna offers to the believer an object of worship who is God made man, who condescends to clothe his majesty in sensible form, so that even the humblest may know and love him. Verily it is not surprising that it should have been supposed by some scholars that the author of the 'Divine Lay' was acquainted with the New Testament. ill. In the year 1578 a young Italian Jesuit named Matthew Ricci arrived at Goa to complete his course of theology in preparation for missionary work in the East. Francis Xavier had already carried the cross to Japan, and in the year of Ricci's birth laid down his life upon the China shore. What Xavier had died for, Ricci accomplished. It was the beginning of the labours which were to be so eventful for the Church, and to reveal some of the strange features of the Flowery Land. Ricci taught chemistry and mathematics as well as the Gospel; and he acquired such mastery of Chinese that his treatise in that language on 'The True Doctrine of God' had the honour of a place in a famous collection of the best Chinese works in 160,000 volumes! The studies which he prosecuted so successfully were maintained by his successors. While the English Church was engaged in driving out the Presbyterians in 1662, Father Da Costa was printing at Kian-chang-foo the first text and translation of the Confucian treatise entitled 'The Great Learning.' A quarter of a century later, in 1687, the three treatises, 'The Great...
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